# How does the brain create a representation of an apple?
**URL:** https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-does-the-brain-create-a-representation-of-an-apple/3640
**Category:** General Neuroscience
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-does-the-brain-create-a-representation-of-an-apple/3640 "2018-03-15T02:32:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Pell](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Ed_Pell)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-does-the-brain-create-a-representation-of-an-apple/3640/1 "2018-03-15T02:32:38Z")
Over at the human brain project they say
[https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/understanding-cognition/](https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/understanding-cognition/)
Creating representation
How does the brain create a representation of an object, like an apple, from multisensory information? This question is crucial since these representations are the basis for higher cognitive processes such as category formation, reasoning and language. One of our goals is to develop a “deep learning” neuronal network that learns to recognize objects and functions in a way similar to real neurobiological systems.
How does this work in HTMs?
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### Author:  [@sheiser1](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/sheiser1)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-does-the-brain-create-a-representation-of-an-apple/3640/2 "2018-03-15T02:53:35Z")
If you haven’t already you should definitely check this out:
> **[A Theory of How Columns in the Neocortex Enable Learning the Structure of the...](https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publications/papers/a-theory-of-how-columns-in-the-neocortex-enable-learning-the-structure-of-the-world/)**
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> This paper proposes a network model composed of columns and layers that performs robust object learning and recognition. The model introduces a new feature to cortical columns, location information, which is represented relative to the object being...
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### Author:  [@Paul\_Lamb](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Paul_Lamb)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/how-does-the-brain-create-a-representation-of-an-apple/3640/3 "2018-03-15T12:22:11Z")
Also, in [this video](https://youtu.be/yVT7dO_Tf4E?t=2139) Jeff adds some more interesting details about how features are essentially pooled representations of sensations at an orientation. Those features are then then given a location context, and then those feature/locations are pooled into object representations.